How To Get Flint In Minecraft

In this tutorial you will learn step by step how to get flint in Minecraft. You can’t make flint with a crafting table in Minecraft, so we’ll show you exactly where to get it.

Minecraft flint is an item that can be used to craft other items such as arrows, flint and steel, and a feather table.

Available Platforms

Edition Platform Available
Java Edition Windows, Mac & Linux PC’s Yes
Bedrock Edition Xbox One, Xbox 360, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, Fire OS, Windows 10 PC’s Yes
Education Edition Mac, iOs 12, Windows 10 PC’s Yes
PlayStation Edition PlayStation 3 & 4 Yes

Required To Get Flint

  • Gravel block
  • Shovel (optional, but faster)

How To Get Flint In Minecraft

1. Find A Gravel Block

To make flint, we first need to find some gravel blocks. You can find gravel almost everywhere: underground, on beaches, near small bodies of water, rivers, etc.

You want to find a block that looks like the image below.

How To Get Flint In Minecraft

2. Mine The Gravel

Once you’ve found some gravel blocks, you’ll need to mine them. You can do this with anything, including your hands, but we recommend using a shovel. And preferably a diamond shovel.

How To Get Flint In Minecraft

Continue mining the gravel blocks until the flint appears. Note that there is only a 10% chance that flint will appear after mining a block of gravel. If you use an enchanted tool, that goes up to 14%. Anyway, you must continue mining gravel blocks until the flint appears.

3. Pick Up The Flint

Once you see a small piece of flint appear, pick it up before it disappears. Congratulations, you now have flint! You can make arrows, flint and steel, and a feather table with flint from Minecraft.

How To Get Flint In Minecraft

Minecraft Flint Command

You can also use a Give statement to create flint in Minecraft. The flint command is available in the following editions of Minecraft:

  • Java edition
  • Pocket edition
  • Xbox One
  • Nintendo Switch
  • Windows 10 Edition
  • Educational Edition

To run the flint command in Minecraft, open your chat window and type the command below, depending on your version of Minecraft:

Java Edition 1.13 and higher

/give @p flint 1

PE, Xbox One, Switch, Win 10, Education Edition

/give @p flint 1 0

FAQ’s

1. How do you turn gravel into flint in Minecraft?

So basically, you can smelt gravel to get 1 flint for every block of gravel you smelt. This would make gravel so much more valuable, and you wouldn’t have to rely on breaking it with a shovel 10000000 times just to get flint.

2. Can you get flint with a torch?

When dropping gravel and breaking it via a torch, it is impossible to yield flint.

3. Where can we find flint in Minecraft?

Flint is a Raw Material that can be found through mining Gravel. Every time you break a gravel block, there’s a 10% chance that a flint will drop instead of gravel . Flint can be used to create Arrows and Flint and Steel.

4. What all can you do with flint in Minecraft?

Uses. Flint is commonly used with an iron ingot, which makes the useful tool flint and steel, which is very commonly used to light TNT, activate Nether Portals and set fire to grass, wood, wooden planks, fences, Netherrack, etc. It can also be used in combination with sticks and feathers to make arrows for bows.

5. Can you farm flint from placed gravel?

When a block of gravel is mined, there is a 10% chance for a single piece of flint to drop instead of the gravel block.Gravel mined using a tool with Silk Touch or gravel that fell on a non-solid block never produces flint.


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